Paper:
Position Control of Direct-Drive Robot Manipulators with PMAC Motors Using Enhanced Fuzzy PD Control
Dong Sun*, Y. X. Su*, and James K. Mills**
*Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
**Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A position control approach for direct-drive robot manipulators with permanent magnet AC (PMAC) motors is proposed. The conventional vector control architecture has been simplified by specifying the motor stator phase so that the rotating d-axis current is zero. The position control is designed to be an enhanced fuzzy PD controller, by incorporating two nonlinear tracking differentiators into a conventional fuzzy PD controller. The proposed control methodology is easy to implement, and exhibits better control performance than conventional control methods. Experiments conducted on a single-link manipulator directly driven by a PMAC motor demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach.